Harrison Ford @ MindSay 
Today sucked I didn't get aynthing done. I meant to do a bunch of stuff like clean my room and wash a few loads of laudry but I ended up watchign this weird movie with Harrison Ford in it. I was thinkign of going shopping later and now I don't think I'll have the time. Its ok I'm almost broke anywayz.
I'm sooooooooooo bored and I haven't made any plans for tonight. I used to go out a lot on weekends but lately I just haven't. I was sick for a while and that kept me from goign but since then I just haven't bothered. Maybe I should try and get everythign done. Hmmmm.
Two Bombs
The first was Clay Jenkinsons' portrayal of Robert Oppenheimer.
Jenkinson is a scholar who performs around the country as several characters, among them are Thomas Jefferson, Merriwether Lewis and Oppenheimer, the "father of the atomic bomb". His Jefferson perfomances are radio-broadcasted here every Sunday afternoon and I have seen him as Lewis a couple times. His work is fascinating and riveting to listen to and watch as you learn of the lives of these greatly influental historical figures.
I learned that Oppenheimer was, most of his life, a sheltered acedemic genius, with zero social skills and no interest in the world. He was in his early thirties before he read a newspaper, had sex and voted. When he was placed in charge of the Manhattan Project it was hushed that he was a card-carrying Communist. He made the statement that, "All of the most progressive and brilliant people in the world are Communists."
Six years and two billion dollars later, his team first developed and built the "gadget" which upon detonation Oppenheimer quoted the Bhagavad Gita saying, "I am become Death, Destroyer of the World", and "Now we're all sons of bitches." The plutonium "Little Boy" and the uranium "Fat Man" dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki respectively together, instantly vaporized around 120,000 people. Please understand "vaporized", the heat produced by an atomic blast is hotter than the surface of the sun. In an instant your body goes from flesh and bones to nothing, just vapor. And these were crude, first run bombs. Physicists say so crude that they only used 1/10th of 1% of their explosive capabilities. If they had been 100% efficient 12 million people would have been vaporized.
Oppenheimer fell into a deep depression afterwards and pissed off President Truman by saying he "had blood on his hands." It is fascinating that Oppenheimer went from being a socially disconnected, academic, with no interest in the world or people, to the "father" of atomic destruction. It's also interesting to note that he was apparently a real space-cadet, so maybe he just forgot about the whole thing after some time. Which brings me to the second show of last night.
Harrison Ford in a half-hour interview with Tavis Smiley. Anthony Hopkins said in an interview years ago that all the talk from actors about it being a craft and an art and so complicated was bullshit. Hopkins said acting is nothing more that pretending. Listening to Harrison Ford struggle to sound convincing and be coherent describing his "craft" added a lot of weight to Hopkins' comments.
I am now convinced that Harrison Ford is an airhead. He jabbered on and on about how he is creating a "product" and we, movie-go'ers are his "customers". His most outrageous comment was "And action, I haven't done so much action, actually. I've done films that have action in it, but I've never done what I would call a real action film." WHAT! Is he suffering from Alzheimers? Does he think he is Sir Lawrence Olivier? Besides who cares what genre it is when, for example, he received $25 million and 20% of the gross for his role in K-19. The whole time Smiley was so painfully patronizing, sucking up, I expected him to give Ford a blow-job. My suggestion to Harrison Ford would be, "Stick to the Script". With his skills at extemporaneous speaking he would be better off miming. He bombed big-time!
Listen to the Ford/Smiley interview here.
Pablo
And here we are, back to Monday once again. My in-depth plan for the weekend was to get rid of this cold thing I have ... so I did absolutely nothing all weekend, and do you think it's gone? Grrrrrrr. Friday night actually we did go to a movie - Firewall - which we really enjoyed. Harrison Ford is usually a safe bet. Then hubby worked Sat & Sun, so I didn't so much as leave the house again all weekend.
Stayed in my PJ's, watched a bunch of movies, and decided to delve into a project I've been thinking of for some time now - organizing photos. Yep, sad eh? :) I purchased a bunch of albums, all identical back in the fall, with the intent to sort and purge all of our photos and attempt to get them into albums properly. I hate having a bunch of mismatched albums that don't even sit nicely together on a shelf. So I got the purging part done (although I think there's still some doubles floating around), and got them all sorted roughly. Will have to pick it up again another weekend and work on more specific dates. However, I am convinced that one of our albums is missing. I remember the exact album, and I remember it being full. Do you think I can find it anywhere? Nope. You just wait - it'll turn up once I've got all the pictures organized in albums, and I'll have to go back and redo.
We were going to go out for supper last night, but it started snowing heavily so we figured it probably wouldn't be the smartest idea, and hubby brought home take-out after work. Chinese food! Mmmmm ... yay for leftovers for lunch today!
The plan for this week? Well, V-day will be spent with a bunch of little 5 and 6 year old girls (Sparks), and hubby will be at work anyway. So gotta finish planning some games for the Sparks meeting. Tonight I think I'm gonna go over to a friend's house for a bit while hubby is out. After a quiet weekend, I'm craving some adult company! I have to work late today thru Wednesday, but on Thursday I'm supposed to be getting off work early - probably around 1pm which will just be damn nice! But go figure, hubby is working Thursday from 1-11pm :)
Well that's about it for now really, my head is void of any insightful or meaningful thoughts ... simply going about routine so far.
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France passed over March of the Penguins and selected the unreleased film Joyeux Noel to represent the country at the 2006 Oscars.
Actors Ben Gazzara (Dogville, Husbands) and Willem Dafoe (Spider-Man, The Last Temptation of the Christ) each received the Donostia Prize for lifetime achievement at the San Sebastian Film Festival September 22.
Orion Pictures co-founder and producer Mike Medavoy received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame September 19.
Actor Alan Rosenberg has been elected president of the Screen Actors Guild, the nation's largest performers union. Rosenberg replaces Melissa Gilbert, who decided not to run for a third term to spend more time with her family.
The cast and filmmakers of Roll Bounce announced September 20 that 10 percent of Fox Searchlight's opening weekend box office proceeds will be donated to Operation USA for Hurricane Katrina disaster relief. Roll Bounce hits theaters September 23.
The 2005 Forbes 400 list of the richest Americans has been released, with filmmakers George Lucas (61st, $3.5 billion) and Steven Spielberg (83rd, $2.7 billion) making the list.
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Christian Slater will avoid jail time by taking a plea deal after being charged with grabbing a woman's butt in May. If the actor stays out of trouble for six months, the charges will be dropped.
Actors Jerry O'Connell (Jerry Maguire, Scream 2) and Rebecca Romijn (X-Men) are engaged.
Oscar-winning songwriter Joel Hirschhorn, who helped write the theme songs for The Poseidon Adventure and The Towering Inferno, died September 18 of a heart attack. He was 67.